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... Cibber , the world seeks nothing but diversion , which is given at the expense of the higher character . When Cibber lampooned Pope , curosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber no- body inquired , but in hope that Pope's ...
... Cibber , the world seeks nothing but diversion , which is given at the expense of the higher character . When Cibber lampooned Pope , curosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber no- body inquired , but in hope that Pope's ...
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... Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of op- posite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has therefore de- praved his poem by giving to Cibber the old books , the cold pedantry , and ...
... Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of op- posite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has therefore de- praved his poem by giving to Cibber the old books , the cold pedantry , and ...
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... Cibber's pamphlets came into the hands of Pope , who said , " These things are my diversion . " They sat by him while he perused it , and saw his features written with anguish ; and young Richardson said to his father , when they ...
... Cibber's pamphlets came into the hands of Pope , who said , " These things are my diversion . " They sat by him while he perused it , and saw his features written with anguish ; and young Richardson said to his father , when they ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides beauties Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt COWLEY criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knowledge labour language learning letter likewise lines literary live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment mind mother nature neglected never numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment Richard Savage satire Savage says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza subscription sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth verses Virgil virtue write written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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